North Berwick - Notable People

Notable People

  • Willie Anderson, golfer, four times U.S. Open Golf Champion, 1901, 1903–05
  • Hew Dalrymple, Lord North Berwick, Lord President of the Court of Session
  • David Huish, golfer with several wins on the European Seniors Tour, who once led The Open Championship at the halfway stage
  • Catriona Matthew, golfer with 7 professional victories, including the Women's British Open in 2009, and 5 Solheim Cup appearances
  • Ben Sayers, golfer, golf course architect and golf club manufacturer; a statue of Sayers which used to stand outside the Ben Sayers & Son factory is now on Beach Road, near the Tantallon Golf Club. The factory has been turned into a youth facility called theSPACE.
  • Sir Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, (1850-1935), Professor of Physiology at the University of Edinburgh from 1899 to 1933, and Emeritus Professor from 1933 until his death, commissioned the Scottish architect Robert Lorimer to design a substantial family house at North Berwick where he resided until his death.
  • Edward Peter Sharpey-Schafer, (1908-1963), grandson of Edward Albert Sharpey-Schafer, and Professor of Medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, London, from 1948 to 1963, was born in North Berwick.

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